Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and about two dozen people outside the NCAA convention Thursday protested the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports and threatened the association with legal action if it doesn’t change its policies.
Full implementation of the policy was scheduled to be phased in by Augustthrough the 2023-24 academic year “to address operational considerations.”
“We want to have an environment that is fair, welcoming and inclusive for all of ,” Ivy League executive director Robin Harris said at the convention during a session this week on the topic. Harris said the transgender athletes policy is no different from other eligibility requirements.
At the protest, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christiana Kiefer said the NCAA is violating Title IX, the landmark gender equity legislation enacted in 1972, and legal action against the NCAA could take several forms.
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Demonstrators protest NCAA's transgender athlete inclusionFormer Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines led a group of about two dozen demonstrators outside the NCAA convention.
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Demonstrators protest NCAA's transgender athlete inclusionFormer Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and about two dozen demonstrators outside the NCAA convention Thursday protested the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports and threatened the association with legal action if it doesn't change its policies. Gaines competed in last year's NCAA swimming and diving championships against Penn's Lia Thomas, who became first transgender woman to win a national title ( the women's 500-yard freestyle). “Today, we intend to personally tell the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes by handing them a petition that we have garnered nearly 10,000 signatures on in just a couple of days,” Gaines said, kicking off more than an hour of speeches that attracted a few onlookers and a handful of quiet counter-protesters.
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